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listen to what john boehner said about being reasonable. some rhetoric that's very con silltory. >> we talk about all kinds of things we may disagree on. i'm the most reasonable responsible person here in washington. the president knows this. he knows that he and i can work together. now the election is over. now it's time to get to work. >> reporter: now the important thing that speaker boehner said, soledad, was that increased revenue would be on the table. so that's the thing to tell you that there may be some middle ground. of course, the devil is in the details. the idea here, though, is that if a framework could be worked on, you may see deductions close, tax credits go away. some deductions, some loopholes closed. and, you know, a lot of people -- even if they're in that top income bracket where they're supposed to be paying 35% or that's the maximum they would pay, some of them effectively are not paying that. they still could be paying more in tax dollars. that could create more revenue. yet the tax rate itself could not go up. com
listen to what john boehner said about being reasonable. some rhetoric that's very con silltory. >> we talk about all kinds of things we may disagree on. i'm the most reasonable responsible person here in washington. the president knows this. he knows that he and i can work together. now the election is over. now it's time to get to work. >> reporter: now the important thing that speaker boehner said, soledad, was that increased revenue would be on the table. so that's the thing to...
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. >>> and president obama and house speaker boehner mum on fiscal cliff negotiations. and a sign that a deal could be near. >>> new world order, the economy growing at an enormous rate in china, and in a few years it will surpass the u.s. what it means, coming up. >>> dozens of homes damaged in the south, ripping off roofs and damaging trees. more to come. stamp watch, straight ahead. >>> lots to talk about this morning. the next two hours, we'll talk with steve israel. jeff sessions, sandy levin, rahm emanuel and businessman javier paolomarez, ed burns, frankie monday easy, and chuck leavell. "starting point" begins right now. welcome, everybody. "starting point" this morning, angry, united. bracing for protests in michigan as the state is poised to become the most unionized right to work state. as many as 10,000 unionized workers expected at the state capitol to voice their disapproval of the measure. some of them teachers, two detroit area school districts shut down for the day as hundreds of teachers plan to join the protest. president obama brought it up during a
. >>> and president obama and house speaker boehner mum on fiscal cliff negotiations. and a sign that a deal could be near. >>> new world order, the economy growing at an enormous rate in china, and in a few years it will surpass the u.s. what it means, coming up. >>> dozens of homes damaged in the south, ripping off roofs and damaging trees. more to come. stamp watch, straight ahead. >>> lots to talk about this morning. the next two hours, we'll talk with...
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it's interesting to hear boehner saying, listen, nowhere, period. nowhere. which sounded very final and very bloomy. earlier when i was talking to senator blumenthal, he was like, i'm optimistic. i'm kind of hopeful. what do you think? >> i think first of all the timing of this probably couldn't be worse for negotiation purposes from our perspective to some degree. right before the holidays, which is a tough time for politicians anyway. in some terms we feel like it's light years between now and the new year. it's really not. it's right around the corner. lawmakers will continue to feel a lot more pressure between now and then to get something done. at the same time we're coming off the heels of this election. to some degree we're kind of trying to find our negotiating legs, if you will. nonetheless, it's critically important. i think it's critically important we say to the american people that we get the fiscal house in order. >> how do you do that in realistically 29 days? what do you say? >> let me go back to this. no one should be surprised we are in the
it's interesting to hear boehner saying, listen, nowhere, period. nowhere. which sounded very final and very bloomy. earlier when i was talking to senator blumenthal, he was like, i'm optimistic. i'm kind of hopeful. what do you think? >> i think first of all the timing of this probably couldn't be worse for negotiation purposes from our perspective to some degree. right before the holidays, which is a tough time for politicians anyway. in some terms we feel like it's light years between...
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speaker boehner has shown real leadership here. the president, all he has proposed so far is his old budget, which failed in the senate 97-0. not even any democrats have voted for what the president has proposed. >> how is it not a tax increase, though? to me at the end of the day if you're paying more in taxes, that's a tax increase. isn't this ultimately republicans are voting for a tax increase, even if it's for the 1%? some people, as you know, have signed the pledge that says that they won't increase taxes and some other things. so how is that not a tax increase? >> as you know, if nothing is passed, soledad, taxes go up on everyone on january 1st. the so-called bush tax cuts expire at the end of this year. so all americans are looking at their taxes going up on january 1st. and what the house and plan b is doing is saying, no, we want to permanently extend the lower rates for 99% of americans. otherwise everybody's taxes go up and people will feel those immediately, because withholding is going to go up in their first paychec
speaker boehner has shown real leadership here. the president, all he has proposed so far is his old budget, which failed in the senate 97-0. not even any democrats have voted for what the president has proposed. >> how is it not a tax increase, though? to me at the end of the day if you're paying more in taxes, that's a tax increase. isn't this ultimately republicans are voting for a tax increase, even if it's for the 1%? some people, as you know, have signed the pledge that says that...
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john boehner from your state of ohio. there are a lot of people that say if the deal were between these two guys, it would be made. the problem is john boehner can't agree to something with president obama and then take it back to his own party. >> well, and vice versa. a year ago august the president couldn't agree to the deal he needed another $400 billion in revenue. look, if the president and senator reid and john boehner all said to me today it's written, let's put simpson-bowles on the floor, i guarantee you given the urgency we could cobble together something to solve this problem but nobody is willing to pull the trigger. everybody wants to play the blame game. this blame game is about to put us over the edge. >> the problem, of course, which you don't personally face because you didn't run for this new congress is a poll that we have that was taken very recently that says -- we asked who would be more responsible if the fiscal cliff occurs. 48% of respondents say the gop in congress. 37% blame -- would blame pres
john boehner from your state of ohio. there are a lot of people that say if the deal were between these two guys, it would be made. the problem is john boehner can't agree to something with president obama and then take it back to his own party. >> well, and vice versa. a year ago august the president couldn't agree to the deal he needed another $400 billion in revenue. look, if the president and senator reid and john boehner all said to me today it's written, let's put simpson-bowles on...
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john boehner's plan "b" has imploded. house republicans didn't even get to vote on it because there wasn't enough support. the whole thing was called off. the house went on recess for the holidays. here is what the speaker said "the house did not take up the tax measure today because it did not have sufficient support from our members to pass. now it is up to the president to work with senator reid on legislation to avert the fiscal cliff." let's get to debbie wasserman schultz. great to have you with us. >> thank you, soledad. great to be here. >> let's start with reaction to what happened last night? >> well, you know, it's frustrating, behalfing, we've been at the negotiating table for weeks. president obama has moved in a mountainous direction toward the republican position, saying, no, we're not going to go with $250,000 in terms of raising the tax rates, we'll go with $400,000, $1.2 trillion in spending cuts and last night, even on the spending cuts plan of speaker boehner's plan "b," he was only able to pass it wit
john boehner's plan "b" has imploded. house republicans didn't even get to vote on it because there wasn't enough support. the whole thing was called off. the house went on recess for the holidays. here is what the speaker said "the house did not take up the tax measure today because it did not have sufficient support from our members to pass. now it is up to the president to work with senator reid on legislation to avert the fiscal cliff." let's get to debbie wasserman...
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that's what john boehner said we need to see. in reform you get more revenue, but not necessarily by taxing the people who could create the revenue and the jobs. >> austan, before he answers, i'm going to interrupt you. i'll let you answer on the other side. >> 350,000 jobless claims last week, drop from 8,000 claims from the week before and i'm going to go out on a limb and say hurricane sandy, this is the first number we've seen superstorm sandy mess up. we're going to start to see -- if you were hunkered down waiting for a hurricane you weren't necessarily going out to file first time unemployment benefits, were you? from here on out that's a good question for austan, too. we'll start to see a lot of noise in the economic reports as we try to figure out if the economy is healing because of sandy. >> first back to the tax reform question. can you answer that? >> therein lies the rub of the statement yesterday. if by raising revenue through tax reform meant let's go in and figure out how we broaden the base and get rid of deduct
that's what john boehner said we need to see. in reform you get more revenue, but not necessarily by taxing the people who could create the revenue and the jobs. >> austan, before he answers, i'm going to interrupt you. i'll let you answer on the other side. >> 350,000 jobless claims last week, drop from 8,000 claims from the week before and i'm going to go out on a limb and say hurricane sandy, this is the first number we've seen superstorm sandy mess up. we're going to start to...
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john boehner sitting by himself. all alone. not a single member of his party willing to share his company. he didn't even have any milk to drink because -- well, tell them why, john. >> they had taken my milk and thrown it in the garbage. >> they took it and threw it in the garbage. >> that's jay ferrell as president obama. he is so good at this. candy crowley actually thought that was president obama. >> he is so good at his delivery. >>> let's talk about our documentary that aired last night. fifth installment of the "black in america" series. we asked the question who is black in america? it unravels the complicated, densely packed issue of racial identity in in country. here is a clip. you must have been told, well, you're not really black like 100 million zillion times. >> you know, i love that conversation. >> you do? you love that conversation. why? i hate that conversation. >> it is fascinating to me. it is fascinating. >> so what do you check when you have to fill out a form, like a census? >> i say black now. but as l
john boehner sitting by himself. all alone. not a single member of his party willing to share his company. he didn't even have any milk to drink because -- well, tell them why, john. >> they had taken my milk and thrown it in the garbage. >> they took it and threw it in the garbage. >> that's jay ferrell as president obama. he is so good at this. candy crowley actually thought that was president obama. >> he is so good at his delivery. >>> let's talk about our...
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so john boehner trying to simplify things. he's asking top democrats and republica republicans to step aside so he can negotiate with the president one-on-one. it seems to be a request that everyone was able to live with. brianna keilar is live for us at the white house. if this is the case that everybody has been cleared out of the room, does that surprise you? it seems to make sense to me. >> reporter: it's not surprising at all. this is what observers of this process thought would happen all along. ultimately this was a process that would come down to president obama and house speaker john boehner brokering a deal. very much the way you saw they attempted to do during the debt ceiling debacle last year. it simplifies the problem of less cooks in the kitchen. then they will have to sell it. president obama would have to bring in democrats. john boehner would have to bring in his republicans and make sure everyone is on board. this comes on the heels of what has really been radio silence between the white house and house repu
so john boehner trying to simplify things. he's asking top democrats and republica republicans to step aside so he can negotiate with the president one-on-one. it seems to be a request that everyone was able to live with. brianna keilar is live for us at the white house. if this is the case that everybody has been cleared out of the room, does that surprise you? it seems to make sense to me. >> reporter: it's not surprising at all. this is what observers of this process thought would...
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john boehner says the white house is dragging its feet. here is what he said. let's play a chunk. >> where are the president's spending cuts? the longer the white house doesn't move on this the closer we get to the fiscal cliff. >> he says the president is slow walking. the president did an interview with abc news. what the president said to barbara walters. >> we have no make sure middle class taxes don't go up on january 1st. i'm confident that republicans wouldn't hold middle class taxes hostage to try to protect tax cuts for high-income individuals. >> he said he's fine to go over the fiscal cliff. all of those reasons would be reasons to say maybe we're not close to a deal on that do you think he'll get a deal before the end of the year? you are the optimistic one in the relationship here, or will we get one before you go off for christmas break? >> some type of deal. may not have a complete deal. but this issue of tax cuts for those earning less than 250,000, we will get that done. that is something we all agree on. and there may very well be parts of thi
john boehner says the white house is dragging its feet. here is what he said. let's play a chunk. >> where are the president's spending cuts? the longer the white house doesn't move on this the closer we get to the fiscal cliff. >> he says the president is slow walking. the president did an interview with abc news. what the president said to barbara walters. >> we have no make sure middle class taxes don't go up on january 1st. i'm confident that republicans wouldn't hold...
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it ended -- boehner reached out to the president. they had lots of meetings. i described their private meetings in detail. as boehner said, at one of the first meetings, the president was cidrinking iced tea and chewing on an nicorette because of his smoking habit and there's boehner over there having a cigarette and red wine, merlot. in a since, they made some progress, but they did not get there. i chart in thousand of words the exact negotiations, the phone calls. you see something that didn't get fixed. i is an i term shame it didn't get fixed. >> why after this research it is harder today to make deals. you see the history of this, people are able to make deals when there are real people sitting across from each other. what is it about this moment or people that makes it impossible? >> part of it is the tea party and the republican house particularly, where they don't want to compromise at all, where they do not want anything that looks like a tax increase. but also on the democratic side and the president, he does not want to cut these entitlement progra
it ended -- boehner reached out to the president. they had lots of meetings. i described their private meetings in detail. as boehner said, at one of the first meetings, the president was cidrinking iced tea and chewing on an nicorette because of his smoking habit and there's boehner over there having a cigarette and red wine, merlot. in a since, they made some progress, but they did not get there. i chart in thousand of words the exact negotiations, the phone calls. you see something that...
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not one thing that speaker boehner proposed that reid said, oh, we can work with that. it's about scoring political points. the american people are tired of all of us, i understand that. we just make used car salesmen look good. that's the only group is below us. but we've got to get our act together, and prove to the american people that we can regain the trust that they once had in us and get the job done. and as you say, not kick the can down the road. they want to us work this out. i hope we do. >> let's talk about something a little more bright. the former marine stuck in mexico. if you don't know the story, he was basically trying to go on a surfing trip. an old winnebago and a bunch of surf boards and some sort of antique, torn apart gun that he wanted to use to hunt rabbits and birds. he got caught up in the judicial system and was languishing in prison, a pretty rough prison across the border and nobody from the united states seemed to be caring much about him, isn't that what was going on, congresswoman? >> absolutely. this is a feel-good christmas story with
not one thing that speaker boehner proposed that reid said, oh, we can work with that. it's about scoring political points. the american people are tired of all of us, i understand that. we just make used car salesmen look good. that's the only group is below us. but we've got to get our act together, and prove to the american people that we can regain the trust that they once had in us and get the job done. and as you say, not kick the can down the road. they want to us work this out. i hope...
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speaker boehner confirmed the vote. listen. >> brian terry's family has a right to know what happened. the american people have a right to know what happened. and we're going to proceed. we have given them ample opportunity to comply. even as late as yesterday. >> brian terry is the border patrol agent killed by a group of bandits with guns traced back to fast and furious. a final attempt of officials to negotiate with house republicans failed on tuesday and now a group of house democrats are planning a walkout to boycott the vote. democratic congressman cleaver is the chairman of the congressional black caucus leading the charge on the democratic walkout. good morning, sir. nice to see you as always. tell me more about this walkout. how many folks are expecting to walkout? just the congressional black caucus or more? >> there are a number of us that believe it should be some group, some person or some members who simply back away from this silliness. we don't want history to record that we participated in something tha
speaker boehner confirmed the vote. listen. >> brian terry's family has a right to know what happened. the american people have a right to know what happened. and we're going to proceed. we have given them ample opportunity to comply. even as late as yesterday. >> brian terry is the border patrol agent killed by a group of bandits with guns traced back to fast and furious. a final attempt of officials to negotiate with house republicans failed on tuesday and now a group of house...
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but naked protesters show up to the house speaker john boehner's office. we'll tell you what was behind that that bare it all kind of protest when the seven of them join us straight ahead. plus you want to know what your must-get gifts are this year? you can upload a picture of yourself or your loved one. even a letter to santa. tell us about the gifts you're hoping for. you can submit your storygraph at cnn.com/starting point and share those here throughout the holidays on cnn. back in a...
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this is a chained cpi is something speaker boehner and the republicans demanded. everybody says let's avoid going over the fiscal cliff. this is one of the demands that the republicans have made. i don't like it. don't think the president prefers it. i know he doesn't. but everyone is trying to find a way to get to it except our republican colleagues. even after the president put this on the table, they decided to walk away with plan "b." >> the republicans say they may have a vote on plan "b" on thursday. it would raise taxes for those making $1 million and above. what does this mean? >> this is another effort by speaker boehner to minimize the impact on high-income earners, plan "b" would give millionaires a $24,000 tax break, relative to what the president is proposing now at $400,000. another way to provide benefits and relief to very high-income individuals, and by leaving the cuts in place, it would mean that working americans, our kids' education, programs for nutrition, for moms and kids, would take a big hit, even as they continue to protect the tax break
this is a chained cpi is something speaker boehner and the republicans demanded. everybody says let's avoid going over the fiscal cliff. this is one of the demands that the republicans have made. i don't like it. don't think the president prefers it. i know he doesn't. but everyone is trying to find a way to get to it except our republican colleagues. even after the president put this on the table, they decided to walk away with plan "b." >> the republicans say they may have a...
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president obama and john boehner met just under an hour. after coordinated press releases, both sides assured the american people that communication lines remain open. dana bash is live in washington, d.c. this morning. 50 minutes and sort of a very milquetoasty kind of statement at the end of it, sounds not good. >> no, not good, considering where we are in the calendacale. i'm told by sources in both parties, a meeting that did not produce any new ideas, more of touching base meeting, the president wanted to talk to the speaker before he went home to ohio, which he still planned to do this weekend, the sources say that the basic problem still is, soledad, after all of the weeks, is democrats still believe republicans have the problem. they need to deal with the debt crisis by raising more revenue, meaning raising more taxes and republicans still think democrats are the problem. they are not offering enough in spending cuts. the issue is, reality, democrats, the president has the most leverage. has had the most leverage, republicans know t
president obama and john boehner met just under an hour. after coordinated press releases, both sides assured the american people that communication lines remain open. dana bash is live in washington, d.c. this morning. 50 minutes and sort of a very milquetoasty kind of statement at the end of it, sounds not good. >> no, not good, considering where we are in the calendacale. i'm told by sources in both parties, a meeting that did not produce any new ideas, more of touching base meeting,...
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house speaker john boehner, mitch mcconnell representing the republicans. brianna keilar live from washington. what do we expect to happen today? any new offers from the president or house speaker? >> we don't know. right now, all eyes on the senate to see what senate majority leader harry reid can cobble together to get some republican support. technically, it's still possible to come to an agreement. that said, politically is a different story, and the prospects for coming to a deal are starting to dim. right now, we're hearing a whole lot of the blame game. a lot of public posturing from both sides as they prepare for the possibility of going over the cliff. let's listen to harry reid. >> we are here in washington working while members of the house of representatives are out watching movies and watching their kids play soccer and basketball and doing all kinds of things. they should be here. >> now, the speaker of the house, john boehner, sort of retorting to reid, ali. in a conference call he said the leaders should do more -- or pardon me. less talking
house speaker john boehner, mitch mcconnell representing the republicans. brianna keilar live from washington. what do we expect to happen today? any new offers from the president or house speaker? >> we don't know. right now, all eyes on the senate to see what senate majority leader harry reid can cobble together to get some republican support. technically, it's still possible to come to an agreement. that said, politically is a different story, and the prospects for coming to a deal are...
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the white house saying that boehner counteroffer is nothing new, that it lacks specifics. but i will tell you, zoraida, that one house democratic aid telling cnn that it passed the laugh test. so certainly i guess it could have been worse in some estimations by democrats. >> i suspect some people were laughing. brianna keilar live at the white house for us, thank you. in the next half hour, we'll talk about the prospect for a fiscal cliff deal with california's democratic congressman xavier becerra. >>> the rain and flooding are relentless in northern california. four storms in less than a week left at least one death now attributed to those storms. and more rain is expected today. let's get right to meteorologist rob marciano. he is following it all from the cnn weather center in atlanta. good morning. >> good morning, zoraida. this is the worst stretch of storms that northern california has seen really in about two years. another punch today then we'll set up for a dry trend. the good news is that it has been dry so the ground, even though we've seen a lot of major flood
the white house saying that boehner counteroffer is nothing new, that it lacks specifics. but i will tell you, zoraida, that one house democratic aid telling cnn that it passed the laugh test. so certainly i guess it could have been worse in some estimations by democrats. >> i suspect some people were laughing. brianna keilar live at the white house for us, thank you. in the next half hour, we'll talk about the prospect for a fiscal cliff deal with california's democratic congressman...
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boehner has said similar things. the administration seems to be open to perhaps tax rates not going up quite as much as they initially proposed but they're still absolutely insistent on those tax rate increases of some size. there's a lot that has to come together in a short period of time in order to get a deal. it's not impossible. but i think the risk of at least temporarily going over this cliff is significant. >> so, zanny minton-beddoughs says it's not a cliff. it's like a blue slope on a ski slope. christine says it's a cliff like a black diamond. >> big black diamond. >> other people have said it's a gentle slope like a sunny day slope down the hill. what is it, do you think? >> the problem is we're going to start going downhill and not know exactly whether it's a blue slope or a double diamond. you don't know exactly what's ahead of you, because we don't know how quickly a deal will come together. that's the problem. if on january 2nd the leadership of the congress and the president say, don't worry. we've g
boehner has said similar things. the administration seems to be open to perhaps tax rates not going up quite as much as they initially proposed but they're still absolutely insistent on those tax rate increases of some size. there's a lot that has to come together in a short period of time in order to get a deal. it's not impossible. but i think the risk of at least temporarily going over this cliff is significant. >> so, zanny minton-beddoughs says it's not a cliff. it's like a blue...
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. >> let's talk about what john boehner said yesterday. he was talking about the chances for losing -- here's what he said. excuse me. >> i say there's a two in three chance that we win control of the house again but there's a one in three chance that we could lose. i'm being frank. >> i'm being frank. one in three chance. would you put their numbers at the same place where he's putting his numbers? >> i think it's entirely reasonable for the speaker to expect that they could lose the house because they very well could. we're working hard to make sure that happens because john boehner has allowed the tea party to take over his conference. the republicans have fully embraced extremism and brought in two years almost no jobs legislation to this floor and not worked with the president on any legislation to help make sure that we can move the economy forward because their number one goal is political and that's to defeat barack obama. >> he didn't say he expected to lose the house. he recognized it as a possibility. a one in three possibility.
. >> let's talk about what john boehner said yesterday. he was talking about the chances for losing -- here's what he said. excuse me. >> i say there's a two in three chance that we win control of the house again but there's a one in three chance that we could lose. i'm being frank. >> i'm being frank. one in three chance. would you put their numbers at the same place where he's putting his numbers? >> i think it's entirely reasonable for the speaker to expect that they...
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let's go. >> boehner says he'll only agree to raise the debt ceiling if it's offset by a greater amount of spending cuts. >>> u.s. stock futures flat but european markets are down on concerns again about greece. that country's president is warning of a possible run on the banks there. greek citizens are worried the country may have to leave the euro currency. they are withdrawing money from the banks, feverishly over the past few days. more on this story as it develops. >>> facebook boosting the size of its ipo offer by 25% looking to raise up to $16 billion. welcome news one day after big three automaker general motors said it's pulling its ads from facebook. sources told the wall street journal, gm is pulling ads because it had little effect on consumers. >>> california will take a big bite out of it. facebook employees will pay $1.1 million each in state income taxes after they go public. up to $4 billion in taxes overall. numbers still in the air but we know for sure after employees start cashing this their shares how much they have to pay to the government. brooke, think of this, t
let's go. >> boehner says he'll only agree to raise the debt ceiling if it's offset by a greater amount of spending cuts. >>> u.s. stock futures flat but european markets are down on concerns again about greece. that country's president is warning of a possible run on the banks there. greek citizens are worried the country may have to leave the euro currency. they are withdrawing money from the banks, feverishly over the past few days. more on this story as it develops....
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house speaker, john boehner, wants to keep all the bush tax cuts in place. he's starting to talk about closing up tax loopholes. conservative pundit and weekly standard editor bill kristol said it's time for republicans to come so some sort of compromise. >> conservative movement has to pull back, let people float new ideas, let's have a serious debate. don't scream and yell when one person says it won't kill the country if we raise taxes a little bit on millionaires. it really won't, i don't think. i don't understand why republicans don't take obama's offer? >> cnn's senior congressional correspondent dana bash is live for us in washington, d.c. what do you make of his comments? >> soledad, look, bill kristol is not an elected official. he doesn't get a vote. but he is a very influential gop voice here in washington. and around the country. and for him to tell republicans it wouldn't kill to them to agree to tax increases for millionaires. it's a big deal. and we heard some similar talk from republicans who do have a vote like senator bob corker. listen to
house speaker, john boehner, wants to keep all the bush tax cuts in place. he's starting to talk about closing up tax loopholes. conservative pundit and weekly standard editor bill kristol said it's time for republicans to come so some sort of compromise. >> conservative movement has to pull back, let people float new ideas, let's have a serious debate. don't scream and yell when one person says it won't kill the country if we raise taxes a little bit on millionaires. it really won't, i...
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. >> john boehner and eric cantor said they are not going to rescind the tax cuts for the wealthiest. if it came down to the choice between the two, extend the tax cut for everybody, even the wealthy, or let them expire for everyone, you would pick the first option, correct? >> well, i'm not going to vote to increase taxes. a tax increase is not the problem. a tax increase is going to make the problem worse. and that's not the right answer here. >> but, you know, when you look at polls on this very issue, and this one is from the pugh research center, they say when they poll people, raising taxes on the rich would 44% say help the economy. 22% say it would hurt the economy. and then no difference somewhere around 24%. when you look at a similar question, raising taxes on the rich would make the system, similar numbers, 44% would make the system more fair. do you worry that in fact what you're getting into by focusing on raising -- keeping the tax cuts for everyone and not doing what the democrats would like to do, which is in effect raise the taxes for the wealthy, that you're not goi
. >> john boehner and eric cantor said they are not going to rescind the tax cuts for the wealthiest. if it came down to the choice between the two, extend the tax cut for everybody, even the wealthy, or let them expire for everyone, you would pick the first option, correct? >> well, i'm not going to vote to increase taxes. a tax increase is not the problem. a tax increase is going to make the problem worse. and that's not the right answer here. >> but, you know, when you look...
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boehner says this. republicans have to start somewhere, and we're going to start there. >> let's start with medicare. start with the big numbers. social security. >> you would think -- >> it's only symbolic. yes, let's go deeper. >> we can talk about that in our end point, which is coming up next. back in a moment. intensive professional effects whitestrips. it goes below the enamel surface to whiten as well as a five-hundred dollar professional treatment for a transformation that's hard to believe. ♪ wow, that's you? [ female announcer ] new intensive professional effects whitestrips. and try 3d white toothpaste and rinse. from crest. life opens up when you do. delicious gourmet gravy. and she agrees. with fancy feast gravy lovers, your cat can enjoy the delicious, satisfying taste of gourmet gravy every day. fancy feast. the best ingredient is love.
boehner says this. republicans have to start somewhere, and we're going to start there. >> let's start with medicare. start with the big numbers. social security. >> you would think -- >> it's only symbolic. yes, let's go deeper. >> we can talk about that in our end point, which is coming up next. back in a moment. intensive professional effects whitestrips. it goes below the enamel surface to whiten as well as a five-hundred dollar professional treatment for a...
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it's the formula that john boehner agreed to. and it's the formula that the extreme tea party congress rejected. they are willing to end the medicare benefit, to end the guaranteed medicare benefit, turn it into a voucher, and at the same time -- >> in 2023. right? let's put that in. >> they are wrong in 2023, and they are wrong now. they are wrong in 2023, soledad, and they are wrong now. >> steve israel joining us this morning. he is the chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee. thank you for talking with us. we always appreciate it. >>> we have to take a break. still ahead, the republican response from senator kay bailey hutchison straight ahead. >>> on alert for tropical storm isaac. the storm is expected to slam into florida. it could be a big problem for the republican national convention. we'll listen to governor rick scott, who will be updating everybody about the situation there. of course he is the governor of florida. >>> and craig fugate will join us. he is the administrator of fema. he'll be tellin
it's the formula that john boehner agreed to. and it's the formula that the extreme tea party congress rejected. they are willing to end the medicare benefit, to end the guaranteed medicare benefit, turn it into a voucher, and at the same time -- >> in 2023. right? let's put that in. >> they are wrong in 2023, and they are wrong now. they are wrong in 2023, soledad, and they are wrong now. >> steve israel joining us this morning. he is the chairman of the democratic...
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made it possible for us to have victory next year, the one who built the coalition which makes speaker boehner in control now to have been under that attack for so long and to use that against them is really unfair. he has paid his dues in order to take the leadership to restore america back to a strong economy again and do the ethics reforms and others needed. >> let me bring in from tampa, rick tyler, senior adviser to one of newt gingrich's pacs. thank you for joining us our conversation. we have a panel was as well. >> thanks for having me. i was enjoying bob's explanation. >> didn't have you visually but glad you could hear us. sounds to me he's saying that, listen, all the ethics investigation was just a big mistake and it's all bygones to this point. to what degree does it hinge on south carolina and the leverage on that debate? >> i think it was very significant. i'm told 60% of the voters in south carolina watch the debate. on tv, that's awfully big. and he had a magnificent performance that drove top radio and top television in the next two days. it's very significant. >> rick, ron b
made it possible for us to have victory next year, the one who built the coalition which makes speaker boehner in control now to have been under that attack for so long and to use that against them is really unfair. he has paid his dues in order to take the leadership to restore america back to a strong economy again and do the ethics reforms and others needed. >> let me bring in from tampa, rick tyler, senior adviser to one of newt gingrich's pacs. thank you for joining us our...
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. >> house speaker boehner said this. he said sort of we've been here before. seen it. done t. here's what he said. >> we've done this at least four times where there's some new government program to help homeowners who have trouble with their mortgages. none of these programs have worked. i don't know why anyone would think that this next idea is going to work. all they've done is delay the clearing of the market. >> so before we talk about clearing of the market, there are a couple of programs. there's something called ham p, the home affordable modification program designed to help 4 million people back in february of 2009. it ended up helping just under 1 million people. there's something called harp, the home affordable refinance program introduced in march of 2009 designed to help 5 million people and it helped, again, just under a million. when he assesses that and says, listen, it's not meeting the need already, why do we need this? >>'s he wrong, by the way. we can't let everybody go into foreclosure. this is not a foreclosure program. >> when you say clearing of the m
. >> house speaker boehner said this. he said sort of we've been here before. seen it. done t. here's what he said. >> we've done this at least four times where there's some new government program to help homeowners who have trouble with their mortgages. none of these programs have worked. i don't know why anyone would think that this next idea is going to work. all they've done is delay the clearing of the market. >> so before we talk about clearing of the market, there are a...
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more than a year ago now, speaker boehner couldn't sell it with the tea party caucus back in the house. >> big takeaway from this? >> my takeaway from the weekend not surprisingly is quite different. there are so many things that we worked on together at the meeting. there was a lot of talk about economic development and terrific sessions on health care and recognizing no matter where you are on the medicaid expansion, there are lots of things we in the states can be doing. terrific conversation bipartisan conversation with secretary arne duncan as well. there's a lot of good work that got done. i was excited to launch my own initiative, we'll be focused on the issue for jobs for people with disabilities. people are not working and would like to be, they have the time and talent and interest in working. i think we can move the needle on that issue. >> thanks for being with u. we appreciate it. >>> still ahead on "starting point," the veep stakes are heating up. mitt romney says he's going to pick a running mate soon. who will it be? we'll look at the short list to see if we can figure
more than a year ago now, speaker boehner couldn't sell it with the tea party caucus back in the house. >> big takeaway from this? >> my takeaway from the weekend not surprisingly is quite different. there are so many things that we worked on together at the meeting. there was a lot of talk about economic development and terrific sessions on health care and recognizing no matter where you are on the medicaid expansion, there are lots of things we in the states can be doing. terrific...
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you saw john boehner spoke yesterday. house republicans agree as well. you'll see action on that extension this month. this issue will not be an issue in terms of whether or not interest rates should go up. christine, the interest rates really are one issue. obviously what you pay on your student loans is an issue. you don't want that to go up. the bigger issue is the cost of college education that's gone up 25%. three-quarters of high school graduates now are saying that college education is unaffordable for them. the big issue is once you get your degree, you can't find a job right now. young people are hit the hardest in this economy. >> you have to pay for it and that's where mitt romney is sort of deviating from the script here. it will cost $6 billion. you have to find a way to pay for it. it is actually taxpayers subsidizing kids going to college. it's taxpayers that pay to keep the interest rates low. >> taxpayers pay for most public institutions. whether you go to a private institution, you may get a pell grant which is a taxpayer subsidized for
you saw john boehner spoke yesterday. house republicans agree as well. you'll see action on that extension this month. this issue will not be an issue in terms of whether or not interest rates should go up. christine, the interest rates really are one issue. obviously what you pay on your student loans is an issue. you don't want that to go up. the bigger issue is the cost of college education that's gone up 25%. three-quarters of high school graduates now are saying that college education is...
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paul ryan and mitt romney, he took $700 million they will say out of the program and others will say boehner and obama were this close to a deal that would have raised the age. the president is pretty much on record for raising the age to 67. how do democrats have an advantage on the issue? >> the congressional budget office has the affordable care act extends of life of medicare, number one. >> that's -- what about the $700 billion? >> first of all, and i think one of your previous speakers talked about it. the difference is the ryan plan cuts the benefits for beneficiaries. essentially it's going to transfer more of a burden onto the beneficiaries and in contrast, the obama plan does not do that. here's the bigger point. bigger point, the president's plan recognizes what we have is a sit care system, where providers and hospitals and the like get paid based on how many procedures they do. the affordable care act really shows how we get to rewarding people, rewarding providers for quality. all that the ryan plan does is cut, cut these are two fundamentally different things. no question we h
paul ryan and mitt romney, he took $700 million they will say out of the program and others will say boehner and obama were this close to a deal that would have raised the age. the president is pretty much on record for raising the age to 67. how do democrats have an advantage on the issue? >> the congressional budget office has the affordable care act extends of life of medicare, number one. >> that's -- what about the $700 billion? >> first of all, and i think one of your...
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i was with speaker boehner the day before yesterday and he said, hey, let's go out and have this discussion. it's president obama who took $700 billion out of medicare. we're trying to save the program. and i think this is an issue that we should be discussing. i don't have a problem discussing medicare or medicaid or some other very important issue. of course we should be talking about that. but i think we've got the winning side of the issue. and obama care is not a popular issue for the president. so i think it's fair game. >> would you encourage people to go check out the aarp's -- you know, what the aarp says about those numbers, what the aarp says about medicare advantage? because the aarp of course as you know has like 480 million members and they are the advocacy group for older americans, and they say they are nonprofit and nonpartisan. and what they say about the law is very different from what you say. would you encourage, you know, everyone to go check that out? >> hey, i want people to look at the full array of information that is out there. and, yeah, let's stick to the facts.
i was with speaker boehner the day before yesterday and he said, hey, let's go out and have this discussion. it's president obama who took $700 billion out of medicare. we're trying to save the program. and i think this is an issue that we should be discussing. i don't have a problem discussing medicare or medicaid or some other very important issue. of course we should be talking about that. but i think we've got the winning side of the issue. and obama care is not a popular issue for the...
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this is from kevin smith, spokesperson for house speaker john boehner. in his remarks today the president forgot to mention that senate dems refused to take up bipartisan house drought relief before add adjourning hash tag shocked. it true, mr. secretary? because the house passed, $383 million emergency relief package last week and the democrats in the senate refused to take it up before they went on vacation. so will this $30 million relief be enough? who's really responsible for this relief here? >> the $30 million is certainly going to provide some assistance but it's nowhere near what we need. the house disaster assistance program was a good start in the discussion but didn't cover specialty crops. i think what we can do with the passage of the farm bill is provide a comprehensive disaster assistance program, which is what the senate and i think many members of the house want. get it done and provide at the same time the certainty that producers need so they can begin planning for the future. if we basically allow this thing to continue beyond septem
this is from kevin smith, spokesperson for house speaker john boehner. in his remarks today the president forgot to mention that senate dems refused to take up bipartisan house drought relief before add adjourning hash tag shocked. it true, mr. secretary? because the house passed, $383 million emergency relief package last week and the democrats in the senate refused to take it up before they went on vacation. so will this $30 million relief be enough? who's really responsible for this relief...